What Students are Learning About

It is a treat that Easter falls in the term. All grades are working on Holy Week and Resurrection artworks and activities.  Next week I will share photos of each year level's completed Easter artworks.

Today Year 5 led us in Stations of the Cross. It was a reverent and creative reflection. They explained each station but also made it relevant to children. Well done Year 5!

Another Easter has arrived. I always enjoy Good Friday, such a quiet day. I usually attend the Stations of the Cross at St John's Kippax or I have also walked the stations from St Francis Xavier in Hall down the hill. Each time I do this I am struck by how hard it must have been for the people around Jesus, those who truly knew and loved Him to watch.

The sufferring, the anguish, the pain all etched on His face and body but nothing can be done to help. 

At those times in our lives when we walk with people who are suffering it is so hard to know what to do. My instinct is to protect them at all costs and not let them  suffer, of course this ends up making things worse in the long run.

I am trying to learn that difficulties bring growth, hope and new life; that developing as a human comes from being supported and loved through the trials that come our way. 

What better example to have but a Nazarean peasant who died on a cross for the sins of all.

God bless, Happy Easter.